"Unusable voice capture device"

[Elden]

Every time I start the game it pops up three (identical) error messages telling me this even though I have voice chat turned off and nothing selected for it. No matter if I play vanilla, Warlords, BTS or Colonization every time, the same error.

It just tells me it is disabled and I click ok, but it is irritating having to do that three times every time I start the game. Is there any fix?

 

[The_J]

Moderator Action: Moved to tech support (because it's not really a bug).

Go to Documents\My Games\BtS, open the civilizationIV.ini with a text editor (right click -> open with... -> choose Wordpad or Notepad), and change

; Enable voice over IP capture and playback
EnableVoice = 1

to 0. Save, and in case you're really playing Vanilla or WL, then do the same in the respective vanilla and WL folders.

 

[Maniac]

Thanks! I've been having this problem ever since I got my new computer with Windows 7.

 

[Elden]

Moderator Action: Moved to tech support (because it's not really a bug).

Go to Documents\My Games\BtS, open the civilizationIV.ini with a text editor (right click -> open with... -> choose Wordpad or Notepad), and change

; Enable voice over IP capture and playback
EnableVoice = 1

to 0. Save, and in case you're really playing Vanilla or WL, then do the same in the respective vanilla and WL folders.

Thanks for the fix, that's much better!
And apologies for the wrong section, I didn't spot the right one.

Thanks! I've been having this problem ever since I got my new computer with Windows 7.

Glad it helped someone else too.

 

[klonoklown]

Helped me as well. That same three clicks in a row was getting annoying! Thanks a lot.

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

Oh well I just got used to always plugging in a microphone before playing, these times are over now. Thank you!

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

After reinstalling Civ 4 due to some problems that didn´t let me play PBEMs sometimes, I have this problem again, however whenever I put this option in the .ini file to 0 it just seems to set itself back to 1 whenever I start BtS. Basically I replace the 0 with a 1, save, close, open it again, the 0 is still there, close, start BtS, get the popups, close BtS, look up the .ini file again and waddayano, it´s back to 1. Any suggestions on this?

 

[maurcus]

So thats what you do so that doesnt happen

 

[Yamato]

I had the problem, then I fixed it (in the manner described in this thread) then I downloaded a couple of mods (it began after I added the Canadian Civ mod) and it came back. Now here is the odd part, I checked the proper .ini file and it has the voice capture still at 0.

Any ideas anyone?

 

[Yamato]

I have checked ever .ini file in 2K games folder, nothing, every .ini file that has any thing about voice is set to 0. Yet I still get the annoying voice capture error message.

The very strange thing is, as I mentioned in the previous post is that I had the problem, I fixed it (this was several months ago) by changing the 1 to 0. I download a couple of mods, and I have the problem again, yet they have no "voice" settings in any of the .ini that they have.

The two mods were Dune Wars and the Canada civ. I'm stumped, I can't find a single reason why this error is happening.

 

[Galasphere 347]

It seems that the upgrade patch of 1.74 upsets the original .ini settings (it creates a .bak file)

It should be announced that you need check this ; Enable voice over IP capture and playback setting and change it to 0 (false) after upgrade.

 

[pete williams]

many thanks this cured one problem
will post other in new thread.